It is hard to imagine what makes people desperate enough to leave their country to prowl the oceans in unseaworthy boats. |
In October 2001, over 400 asylum-seekers departed from Indonesia in an overcrowded, unseaworthy boat bound for Australia. |
The draft report suggests the 26 ft open-deck fishing boat was unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable. |
Instead, in his view, they may have knowingly allowed the heavily overloaded and unseaworthy boat to leave Indonesia and sink soon afterwards. |
We have been accommodating to the boats that are unseaworthy for 18 months now. |
The boats he boarded were unseaworthy and one became lost at sea for fourteen days after a ferocious storm. |